My pseudo

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RyDroid is the pseudo that I use
on the Internet, video games and any other media
where my name is not important.
How did you create your pseudo?
The first part comes from
rayquaza
which is a pokemon,
I was a fan so I used that pseudo.
So, I took the "r" and the "y" from rayquaza.
The "y" is also a reference to Python,
a programming language with a free/libre cross-platform interpreter, that I like.
"droid" refers to Android
(and BugDroid its mascot),
a good free/libre operating system for pocket computers and tablets.

Quotes that I like

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.Isaac Asimov

Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.Edward Snowden

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.Benjamin Franklin

While corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance or change in technology is an opening for them to further restrict or mistreat its users.Stallman's Law

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.Eric Arthur Blair / George Orwell

Is veganism a matter of "choice"?
No, except if you think that we have the moral right to choose to exploit the vulnerable
for frivolous purposes such as palate pleasure.
Gary Francione

Is Veganism "Extreme"?
If we can live and prosper without exploiting non-human animals,
why would we not do so?
I do not see veganism as "extreme" in any way.
I see exploiting for no valid moral reason as extreme in every way.
Gary Francione

Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?
In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.
Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten.
Eric Arthur Blair / George Orwell

To have the choice between proprietary software packages, is being able to choose your master.
Freedom means not having a master.
And in the area of computing, freedom means not using proprietary software.
Richard Stallman

I could have made money this way,
and perhaps amused myself writing code.
But I knew that at the end of my career,
I would look back on years of building walls to divide people,
and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.
Richard Stallman
on why he decided against writing proprietary software

The real damage from terrorist attacks doesn't come from the explosion.
The real damage is done after the explosion, by the victims,
who repeatedly and determinedly attack themselves,
giving over reason in favor of terror…
Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence
into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.
Cory Doctorow

Please don’t engage in speciesist nonsense, such as promoting "small steps".
We would never say that sort of thing in the human context and
some people say it in the animal context because they devalue non-human animals based on species.
Gary Francione